Quan Zou introduces a novel approach to derive the distribution of disease affectional status given alleles identical by descent (IBD) sharing through ITO method for both dichotomous trait and quantitative trait locus (QTL). The approach tremendously simplifies the calculation of the affectional status distribution compared to the conventional method which requires the parental mating information. This distribution is shown to be independent of relative relationship and be employed to develop the marker IBD distributions, based on which, three linkage tests: the proportion, the mean test, and...
Quan Zou introduces a novel approach to derive the distribution of disease affectional status given alleles identical by descent (IBD) sharing through...